26.2542, Calls: Chinese, Applied Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Socioling/China

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Subject: 26.2542, Calls: Chinese, Applied Ling, Phonetics, Phonology, Psycholing, Socioling/China

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:10:44
From: Marjoleine Sloos [msloos at cas.au.dk]
Subject: Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese

 
Full Title: Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese 
Short Title: CAAC 

Date: 26-Oct-2015 - 27-Oct-2015
Location: Shanghai, China 
Contact Person: Marjoleine Sloos
Meeting Email: msloos at cas.au.dk
Web Site: http://chineseaccents.yolasite.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

''Chinese Accents and Accented Chinese'' is a platform that seeks to explore the phonetics and phonology of second language acquisition in which Chinese is either the native language (L1) or the target language (L2).
 
The current fast developments in China have led to an increase of the number of Chinese learners of English and other European languages as well as an increase of speakers of European languages learning Chinese. This emerging interest in learning and teaching Chinese all over the world has, in turn, increased the demand for qualified phonetic and phonological research to support teaching of Chinese as a second language. Also the production and perception of Chinese students of foreign languages increasingly attracts the attention of scholars both within China as overseas. 

Since Chinese and European languages greatly differ in their consonants, vowels, and prosody—let alone their different writing systems—second language acquisition into either direction is a difficult task. Although there is a vast amount of literature on Chinese-accented English (discussing, for instance, typical Chinese pronunciations of English, including wrong stress placement), research on Chinese accent in other languages lags far behind. Similarly, foreign accented Chinese is hardly linguistically investigated. Even for Chinese-accented English, a thorough investigation is still lacking.

Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts about phonetics and phonology in which Standard Mandarin Chinese or any Chinese dialect is either the first language or the target second/foreign language. Topics may include but are not limited to:

-The production and perception of English spoken by Chinese learners
-The production and perception of Chinese by second language learners
-The production and perception of Standard (Beijing) Mandarin Chinese by speakers of other Chinese dialects
-The phonology of second language acquisition of Chinese 
-Automatic transcription of Chinese as a foreign language
-Mutual intelligibility of Chinese-accented languages or accented Chinese
-Second language acquisition of prosody (tone, stress, focus, sentence intonation)
-Socio-phonetics of Chinese dialects and the accommodation towards Standard Mandarin or other (prestige) varieties

Abstracts of maximally 250 words in English can be sent before September 15, 2015 to m.sloos at cas.au.dk




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